Cottonwood Cuttings
Sunday the girls were all out doing girl things and I was left home alone so I decided to take a stab at growing some cottonwood cuttings. Supposedly Cottonwoods are one of the easiest trees to grow cuttings from and since the Eastern Cottonwood (Populus deltoides) is among my favorite of trees...
Read MoreLast Man Standing
After the worst summer since I’ve been alive, me and my trees are left battered and bruised. The losses due to the heat and drought have been substantial. Some of them are my own fault because they really aren’t supposed to live here in the first place…Fir, Sugar Pine, Hemlock,...
Read MoreSpring Trees
I know nobody besides my mom cares about my tree-speak but I like to talk about my trees so that’s just how it is. This spring I have a few new additions I am excited about, and today i’ll talk about the deciduous ones. First, I have completed my trifecta of the poplar genus. This...
Read MoreTree Planting
Yesterday was a major milestone as far as I’m concerned…Emma’s first tree planting. I had about 30 seedlings left to plant, a mix of Shortleaf and White Pine and decided to see if Emma had any interest in participating. I made the holes and she would select a tree and put it in...
Read MoreFlowers
When you think of spring flowers on trees I would expect things come to mind like Dogwood, Redbud, or the ever so popular Bradford Pear. But pretty much every tree flowers in one way or another… it has to in order to perpetuate it’s species. It’s just that not all of them do it in...
Read MorePlanting Pines
How many times have I wrote about planting trees? Probably too many, yet I continue to plant and continue to write about it. The weekend turned out to be relatively nice, so on Sunday I planted a little over half of the MDC seedlings I ordered this year (125 trees). For this round of planting I...
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